Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (April 29, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 29, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 2018-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Engaging with Art (April 29, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48809 48809-11885011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 29, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

For more information and events, visit umma.umich.edu/events.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:43:21 -0500 2018-04-29T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-29T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering engaging with art
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (April 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (April 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-04-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-04-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Family Art Studio: Sunprints (May 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51897 51897-12285869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free. Registration is required: visit our website to register. Please include the number of people in your group.

Design and create your own sunprints using broad range of works featured in in UMMA's collection as inspiration. Sunprinting is based on the cyanotype process, which has been used by artists since its development in the 19th century and results in brilliant high-contrast blue & white compositions. We will explore patterns, shapes, and motifs from the Asian, Modern & Contemporary, and Decorative Art collections, and possibly more! UMMA docents will lead a tour through the galleries followed by a hands on workshop with local artist Adrian Deva. Designed for families with children ages 6 and up. Parents must accompany children.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:46:57 -0400 2018-05-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Family Art Studio
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
UMMA Pop Up: Fiddle and Banjo music with Aaron Jonah Lewis (May 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51898 51898-12285871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Aaron Jonah Lewis is a multi-instrumentalist performer and educator. He has won awards at the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival, including First Place Neotraditional Band in 2008 and 2015; and at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, including First Place Bluegrass Fiddle in 2007. He has performed at major festivals from the US to the UK and from Italy to Finland.

Lewis has appeared on dozens of recordings from bluegrass and old time to swing jazz, modern experimental, and Turkish classical music projects. He has taught workshops at the the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. He also plays and teaches banjo, mandolin, guitar, and bass. Lewis is currently based in Detroit.

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Performance Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:52:49 -0400 2018-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Aaron Jonah Lewis
Family Art Studio: Sunprints (May 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51897 51897-12285870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free. Registration is required: visit our website to register. Please include the number of people in your group.

Design and create your own sunprints using broad range of works featured in in UMMA's collection as inspiration. Sunprinting is based on the cyanotype process, which has been used by artists since its development in the 19th century and results in brilliant high-contrast blue & white compositions. We will explore patterns, shapes, and motifs from the Asian, Modern & Contemporary, and Decorative Art collections, and possibly more! UMMA docents will lead a tour through the galleries followed by a hands on workshop with local artist Adrian Deva. Designed for families with children ages 6 and up. Parents must accompany children.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:46:57 -0400 2018-05-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-05T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Family Art Studio
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 6, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 6, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters (May 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51899 51899-12285872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the 1980s, Japan’s strong trade surplus and currency were causing friction and antagonism overseas. In response, three renowned Japanese artists took on the challenge of changing Japan’s global image through graphic design. Their eye-catching designs often incorporated familiar traditional symbols and motifs, notably the iconic red circle against a white background of Japan’s national flag, from which this exhibition gains it name, Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters. Join Docents as they introduce this exciting exhibition focusing on graphic design.

Lead support for Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters is provided by AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:55:17 -0400 2018-05-06T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-06T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Red Circle
Outside In: A Walking Tour of Cosmogonic Tattoos with Jim Cogswell (May 6, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51900 51900-12285873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 6, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University Bicentennial, Stamps School of Art & Design Professor and artist Jim Cogswell was invited to develop a public installation drawing upon the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist created a single rhythmic procession of vivid, but fragmentary images installed on the glass walls of the two museums. In this walking tour of the installation at UMMA, Cogswell will describe the purpose and process of his project which narrates a compelling story about the movement of people and objects throughout history, their stories now set in new relationships to each other.

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:57:43 -0400 2018-05-06T15:00:00-04:00 2018-05-06T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Cosmogonic Tattoos
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
UMMA Pop Up: Alena Carter (May 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51901 51901-12285876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Join Alena Carter for an hour in UMMA's galleries, where she will play a selection of fiddle tunes from the British Isles and America. Alena is a local violin teacher, performer, and full-time mom. After finishing her degree in violin performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she travelled the country, met her husband, and eventually settled here in Michigan where she plays with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the A2SO String Quartet.

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Performance Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:34:06 -0400 2018-05-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-05-12T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Alena Carter
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece (May 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 46545-10547070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Since the 1980s, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal, garbage, taxidermy, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.

"The Masterpiece" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.

Lead support for "Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund.

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Exhibition Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:05:10 -0500 2018-05-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Tim Noble and Sue Webster
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49500 49500-12285877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century including Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. Join docents as they explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:05:56 -0500 2018-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
In Conversation: Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51903 51903-12285878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited: please visit our website to register.

Unrecorded traces how African artists became “anonymous” in museum settings to current debates on representing named artists from Africa and the diaspora. The exhibition displays works made by both unrecorded and named artists, including renowned artists Yinka Shonibare, William Kentridge, the Adugbologe family, and Osei Bonsu. Join Allison Martino, exhibition co-curator and 2016-2017 Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, for an introduction to artworks featured in the exhibition. She will also discuss the historical and contemporary issues surrounding the attribution of African artists and museum displays of their work.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:39:25 -0400 2018-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 2018-05-13T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 20, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 20, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51904 51904-12285879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history,
culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated
with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual
agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks
from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story.
It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of
African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:41:25 -0400 2018-05-20T14:00:00-04:00 2018-05-20T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-21T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-21T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-22T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-22T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 27, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-27T12:00:00-04:00 2018-05-27T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 29, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-29T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-29T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (May 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (May 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (May 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (May 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-05-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12576995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 3, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Cosmogonic Tattoos (June 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52262 52262-12579986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished Stamps School of Art and Design professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative of reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community. UMMA docents will introduce the juxtaposed images and help connect the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity.

Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 09 May 2018 12:43:01 -0400 2018-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Jim Cogswell, Digital study for Cosmogonic Tattoos, 2016. Courtesy of the artist
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-04T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 5, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-05T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-07T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-07T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-08T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12576996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
UMMA Pop Up: Music with Michael Malis (June 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52263 52263-12579987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Michael Malis is a pianist and composer based in Detroit, MI. In August 2017, he released an album of duets with saxophonist Marcus Elliot, entitled “Balance.” The album was praised by the Detroit Metro Times as “contemporary jazz of the highest order, a benchmark for where the genre can go.” He has performed at venues such as the Yokohama Jazz Promenade (Yokohama, Japan), the Kennedy Center, Birdland (NYC), the Detroit Jazz Festival, The Stone (NYC), and the Detroit Institute of Arts, and with notables such as Marcus Belgrave, Tyshawn Sorey, William Hooker, Jaribu Shahid, Ken Filiano, Andrew Bishop, Dennis Coffey, and Marion Hayden. He has been lauded for his scores for film and theater, which have garnered awards, critical acclaim, and have reached international audiences. He is a founding member of Polyfold Musical Arts Collective. He is currently as Master’s student at Wayne State University, studying composition.

Find him on Facebook @michaelmalismusic or on Instagram @michaelnomalice.

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Performance Wed, 09 May 2018 12:47:10 -0400 2018-06-09T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-09T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Michael Malis
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-10T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 10, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49500 49500-12579988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century including Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. Join docents as they explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:05:56 -0500 2018-06-10T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
In Conversation: See Through: Reflections on Photography (June 10, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52264 52264-12579989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 10, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Visit https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ef6ymope828b0ee7&oseq=&c=&ch= to register.

See Through: Windows and Mirrors in UMMA’s Photography Collection explores how photographers employ windows and mirrors across 100 years of photography practice–from street photography to self-portraiture. The works on view invite us to consider the choices photographers make when constructing their images and, in turn, the manner in which we–as active viewers–see photographs. Accompany Jennifer Friess, UMMA’s Assistant Curator of Photography for a conversation in the gallery about how windows and mirrors, like the medium of photography itself, expand the limits of the human eye to perceive the world.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 May 2018 12:51:44 -0400 2018-06-10T15:00:00-04:00 2018-06-10T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos.
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-11T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-11T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 12, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-12T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-12T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-13T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-14T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-14T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-15T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12576997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-16T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)
See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography (June 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52257 52257-12577014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

See Through: Mirrors and Windows in Twentieth-Century Photography brings together a group of images that are doubly framed—once by the camera lens and again by the border of a mirror or window. By refracting and distorting, revealing and concealing, these reflective and transparent surfaces both draw attention to the photographer’s efforts to frame the world and expose the contingent nature of reality. Highlights from the exhibition include works by Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Joanne Leonard, Danny Lyon, and Joel Meyerowitz. By extending the limits of perception, these witty and provocative works invite us to see [through to] new visual possibilities.

Lead support for See Through: Windows and Mirrors in Twentieth-Century Photography is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 May 2018 11:40:04 -0400 2018-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy—Colorado, 1955, gelatin silver print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Gerald Lotenberg, 1981/2.194.2, © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51906 51906-12285904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:51:24 -0400 2018-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Unrecorded
Guided Tour - Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa (June 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52265 52265-12579990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Historical collecting practices have had a lasting impact on representations of Africa, its history, culture, and life today. Labeled as ‘unknown’ or ‘anonymous,’ African artists became associated with broad cultural styles and collective identities rather than personal creativity and individual agency. The exhibition Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa includes artworks from both named and unrecorded, contemporary and historic artists to tell an alternative story. It explores how the changing attributes of an ‘African’ artist’s identity, and constructions of
African identity more broadly, have shaped perceptions of Africa outside of the continent.

Lead support for Unrecorded: Reimagining Artist Identities in Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Susan Ullrich.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 09 May 2018 12:56:04 -0400 2018-06-17T14:00:00-04:00 2018-06-17T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Yinka Shonibare MBE, Untitled (Dollhouse), 2002, wood, fabric, paper, plastic, metal, resin, offset lithograph. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2002/1.236 © Yinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2018. Photography: Charlie Edwards
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection (June 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49505 49505-11465057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29:23 -0500 2018-06-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition William Tarr, 'Study for Gates of the Six Million,' ca. 1980, bronze. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Kasle, 2016/2.113
Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance (June 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52025 52025-12362776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is known for imaginative drawings, sculptures, dioramas, and films rooted in the traditions of Surrealism, Dada and outsider art. His 2013 film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) tells the tale of a romance between two principal figures of these traditions: Dada icon Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who was the model for Duchamp's final, enigmatic artwork Étant donnés. Rife with art-historical references not only to the work of Duchamp but also to Francisco Goya, Francis Picabia and Joseph Beuys, among others, Une danse des bouffons navigates a sexually charged and mesmerizing world in which fantasy and torture run amok. The gallery presentation also includes a storyboard for the film featuring Dzama’s ink and watercolor drawings, renderings of small hybrid figures resembling children’s book illustrations. The drawings underscore the fantastical elements in a film that combines the carnivalesque with a nightmarish exploration of the surreal.

Lead support for Marcel Dzama: A Jester's Dance is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch. Additional generous support is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:26:24 -0400 2018-06-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Marcel Dzama, Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013, video projection, edition of 4. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript (June 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50849 50849-11884939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:55:41 -0500 2018-06-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Artist unknown, Calendar leaf (January), from a Book of Hours, 1462, ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen, 2015/2.6B (recto)